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When it comes to the validation of the incoming requests, the validation package contains an implementation of
the Interpreter Design-Pattern, that holds breaks the tokens of the incoming requests into a series of tokens, 
and then validates according to the specification. This information is passed to the HttpRequest instance and
also to the Request Handler.

<h2>Related Documentation</h2>


<ul>
  <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/v-octopus/wiki/ArchitecturalUMLDesign">VOctopus UML Architecture</a>
  <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreter_pattern">Gang-of-Four Interpreter Design-Pattern</a>
  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html">W3 Http Request specification - rfc2616-sec5</a>
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